LabVIEW
Error Reading Cluster from disk
@cbutcher wrote:
I feel like when I've seen older videos for LabVIEW tutorials, some of them had pink error clusters, however, googling didn't give me any information on when the current version error cluster as a separate type of cluster with a yellow wire was introduced.
It was sometime in the LabVIEW 8.X days, possibly even 8.0, when the error wire became special with its own color.
Actually it was already yellowish in 7.x. Before that you could add funkyErrClustWire=True to the LabVIEW INI file to turn the error cluster wire into the yellowish color at least for version 6.x.
@rolfk wrote:
Actually it was already yellowish in 7.x. Before that you could add funkyErrClustWire=True to the LabVIEW INI file to turn the error cluster wire into the yellowish color at least for version 6.x.
Wasn't the cluster itself also different? I have a vague memory of a 2 element cluster, possibly Int and String. This must have been at uni where i tested ver 5 as my first experience. 2005?
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Nope the official error cluster was like it is now, since at least LabVIEW 4 but I think even in LabVIEW 3. There were many VI libraries that were more or less ported over from earlier Mac only versions where an error cluster hadn't been invented yet. They usually just returned an integer that would indicate an error if it was not 0 or sometimes if it was negative. Pretty messy as each library had its own type of error indication. There might have been early DAQ interfaces that had a limited error cluster with just two elements. That was before NI implemented the unified NI-DAQ API, which by now is already obsolete again for many years too.
@rolfk wrote:
Actually it was already yellowish in 7.x. Before that you could add funkyErrClustWire=True to the LabVIEW INI file to turn the error cluster wire into the yellowish color at least for version 6.x.
I opened up LV 7.1 just to see and I have to agree with @crossrulz that the change happened somewhere in 8.x (but not 8.0 - it was the same color as 7.1). If you're wondering why I'm avoiding color names, I'm colorblind so I can tell you they are different, but I can't tell you what the LV 7.1 wire looks like. The current LV error wire looks yellowish brown to me.
judging from this post, though, I guess it was 8.2. 😉
